Kitum Cave - Wikipedia
WEBKitum Cave is a non-solutional cave developed in pyroclastic (volcanic) rocks (not, as some have presumed, a lava tube). It extends about 200 metres (700 ft) into the side of Mount Elgon near the Kenyan border with Uganda. The walls are rich in salt, and animals such as elephants have gone
Kitum Cave – Kenya - Atlas Obscura
WEBDec 14, 2009 · Discover Kitum Cave in Kenya: A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Introducing the Kitum Cave elephants, Mount Elgon’s salt-miners
WEBBuried underneath the border-topping Mount Elgon, is a cave that, by night, is the foraging ground for a group of mining elephant. The Kitum cave elephant have adapted to the mineral poor environment surrounding Mt. Elgon by mining for salt under the earth. Kitum Cave is an ancient lava tube formation.
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WEBDec 24, 2023 · Elephants come to Kitum Cave at night seeking salt. The cave is now large enough to accommodate an entire herd of savannah elephants, all scraping their tucks along the cave walls and carving out chunks of …
The Salt Mining Elephants of Mount Elgon - Amusing Planet
WEBNov 26, 2018 · One young bull elephant at the Aberdare National Park in Kenya was observed to consume 14 to 20 kg of salty soil in 45 minutes. From another observation of a young calf feeding himself rocks inside Kitum Cave in Mount Elgon, researchers estimate that on average an elephant excavate about two liters volume of rocks from the cave.
Cave Elephants and the Search for our Early Ancestors on Mt Elgon
WEBDec 9, 2019 · It is well known that these elephant visit Kitum Cave in Mt Elgon National Park to mine salt, penetrating 150 meters into the mountain. Remarkably, it is only now coming to light that Kitum is not alone and that an extensive network of at least 12 caves is used by elephants.
Kitum Cave - Elephant Spoken Here
WEBAt Kitum Cave, “one of five named ‘elephant caves‘ of Mount Elgon” elephants have, “for centuries,” been discovered deep inside. On a mission, they work hard, scratching the walls of the cave with their tusks (“tusk art“) effectively “mining” the salt they so love ….
Caves of Kenya: Kitum Cave
WEBNgwarisha Cave in much smaller, and there are two more which are only about 20 to 30 m in diameter, Chepnyalil Cave and Kiptoro Cave. The most spectacular visit is during night, because you are surrounded by elephants.
Kitum Cave - A Non-solutional Cave developed in Pyroclastic Rocks
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · Two European visitors contracted Marburg virus there during the 1980s. It is one of five named “elephant caves” of Mount Elgon where animals, including elephants, mine the rock for its sodium-rich salts. Kitum Cave is …
Mount Elgon National Park | Kenya Wildlife Service
WEBKitum Cave is regularly visited by herds of elephants, dubbed the troglodyte tuskers, as well as bushbuck, Red Duiker, Grey Duiker and buffalo, all in search of the salts that abound in the mineral-rich earth of the caves.
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